More than 1,000 students have now attended GIS Management Academy classes, either online or face to face. These are the current courses in the GIS Management Academy catalog (all classes are two hours, unless otherwise noted).
To learn more about the GIS Management Academy and to register for currently available classes, visit the GMA Eventbrite Site today.
GIS Management Essentials
GIS Managers Boot Camp (8 hours – online or face to face)
GIS management is one of the most demanding and also most rewarding of careers. Agencies invest millions to develop GIS and millions more every year to maintain, operate, and utilize their GIS. GIS is expected to deliver an array of benefits, from enhanced services, better citizen engagement, regulatory compliance, and financial ROI.
This workshop is based on a framework of the essentials of a successful GIS operation. First – what are the characteristics of a successful GIS? How do we know a successful GIS when we see one? Second – what are the management outputs that guide, support, and sustain a successful GIS? And finally, what are the essential competencies that a highly effective GIS needs to deploy to ensure the GIS succeeds?
GIS Strategy Development for Effective GIS Managers
The workshop outlines the fundamentals of GIS strategic planning and how to turn a plan into action and manage it for positive results.
Promote and Grow your GIS for Successful Geospatial Managers
This workshop introduces proven strategies and methods to promote and grow your government agency or private company GIS operation.
GIS Governance Best Practices
This workshop provides a roadmap to develop effective GIS governance and guidance on using governance as a key GIS management competency.
GIS Staffing Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers:
This workshop provides a clear foundation and action-based structure for managers to plan, assemble, and motivate a winning GIS team.
Effective GIS Client Services for Cities, Counties, and Private Companies
The focus of this course is on the project work that GIS operations perform for their internal or external customers or clients.
Modelling & Assessing You and Your GIS
Applying the GIS Capability Maturity Model for Effective GIS Managers
This workshop introduces the GIS Capability Maturity Model (GISCMM) as a tool for effective GIS management, operations, and metrics.
Applying the Geospatial Management Competency Model for Successful GIS Managers
The workshop shows how the GMCM can help you assess your management competencies and prioritize your continual career development.
GIS Finance, Funding, & Budgeting Essentials
GIS Funding, Budgeting & Financial Management
This workshop introduces the essentials of GIS funding, budgeting, and financial planning and management for effective GIS managers.
GIS Funding Best Practices for Cities and Counties
The focus of this workshop is on funding GIS operations for cities, counties, and other entities. Money is what built our GIS in the past, money is what keeps it going today, and money is what we need to sustain and grow it in the future.
GIS Return on Investment (ROI) Fundamentals
Learn how GIS managers can document ROI to demonstrate the value of their GIS and to advocate for future financial support.
Treating GIS as an Asset: Valuation, Lifecycle & Budgeting for Local Government
This online workshop provides a clear understanding of what GIS assets are. It presents a templated methodology to calculate and communicate the overall value of your GIS.
GIS Ethics & Equity Essentials
Introduction to GIS for Equity & Social Justice (4 hours, online or face to face)
This workshop is as an introduction to trends and practices related to using GIS for Equity and Social Justice (ESJ). GIS managers and professionals are bound by the GIS Code of Ethics to consider the impact of their work on society. Obligations to society are paramount for ethical use of GIS.
We will explore both how maps and GIS have been used malevolently and also a few examples of how pioneering geographers, cartographers, and data scientists used spatial data and maps for social justice. During the past 25 years there have been accelerating uses of GIS for issues related to equity or social justice.
We will explore critical race theory (CRT) and trends in critical race spatial analysis. Most importantly we will outline best practices for GIS professionals in doing GIS for ESJ work. This includes creating a data/mapping/application support framework both for their own work and to support the work on non-GIS professionals. Non-GIS professionals will become the largest community doing actual ESJ work with GIS. These non-GIS professionals include those who work for agencies, non-profits, and NGO’s with an ESJ mission, as well as government policy professionals who want to use GIS to support an ESJ lens for developing upstream agency policies.
The GIS Code of Ethics for GIS Professionals – An Interactive Workshop
This workshop will help GIS professionals understand the GIS Code of Ethics and prepare them to apply it when circumstances warrant.
Introduction to the Locus Charter for GIS Managers, Projects & Programs
This workshop will help GIS professionals understand the Locus Charter and how they can apply it to guide the ethical use of geospatial information and technology.
Cartography & Geography – Essentials for GIS Professionals
Geographic Theory and Thinking for GIS Managers (Available as a 2-hour or 4-hour workshop)
This workshop will help GIS managers and staff leverage geographic theory and thinking to create more value for their agency.
Cartography & Map Design Boot Camp (8 hours – online or face to face)
Merely using tools of the trade does not make a person an effective mechanic, surgeon….or cartographer. An effective, successful map portrays a place, delivers a message, or reveals a pattern with representational accuracy and visual clarity. The test of accuracy and clarity is how well the audience perceives the map, understands its intended purpose, and interprets the spatial data and patterns the map depicts.
This workshop is designed to help mapmakers achieve that result and to enable anyone involved in the mapmaking process to understand how that happens. In addition, as cartographers, we have ethic obligations to consider.
Free Workshops
Map Intelligence – Map Reading and Interpretation for Informed Citizens (75 minutes)
Join us online for Map Intelligence, a cool event designed to boost your skills in map reading and interpretation. Whether you’re a curious beginner or just want to sharpen your spatial smarts, this session is perfect for becoming a more informed citizen. Dive into the world of maps and learn tips and tricks to navigate and understand any map like a pro. Don’t miss out on this fun, interactive online experience!
What is GIS? Welcome to the Geospatial Revolution! (75 minutes)From the day we are born, our lives are lived across the surface of the earth – geography is not just a Jeopardy Category – Geography matters. Join us for this fast-paced and fun session that explores GIS – geographic information systems. Have a smart phone with GPS? You really have a GIS of your own. Your local government uses GIS. Counties, states, provinces, nations use GIS. Companies use GIS, and you can too. Don’t miss out on this interactive session.
Learn more and register…
To learn more about the GIS Management Academy and to register for currently available classes, visit the GMA Eventbrite Site today.
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